Re: [bug-mailutils] RFC2822 header decoding question

[Kostas Zorbadelos]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:20:29PM +0300, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote:

I found the proper function for the job. It's

mu_rfc2047_decode()

Thanks,
Kostas

> Greetings to all.
> 
> I have the following situation:
> I need to create a mail message based on the contents of another
> message. Specifically, the new message contains in its body (parts of)
> the original message's From: and Subject: headers.
> 
> The problem comes when From: and Subject: of the original message
> contain non-ascii characters. In this case in the subject string I get
> something of the form 
> 
> =?iso-8859-7?Q?=D0=F1=EF=E4=E9=E1=E3=F1=E1=F6=DD=F2?= /
>         Hello =?iso-8859-7?Q?=E3=E9=E1?= =?iso-8859-7?Q?_=F4=E1?= world
> 
> This contains 8 bit Greek characters, so I need to decode them and
> include them in a new message with 
> 
> "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=" MY_CHARSET "\n"
>         "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
> 
> I take a look at the mu_parse822* functions and especially
> mu_parse822_quoted_string but I cannot understand what is
> needed. Could someone help me on this?
> 
> Kostas
>